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Unsure where to register to join Fediverse? Choose a website from this curated list. It includes Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Misskey and Hubzilla servers. Websites are not restricted to their theme. They help people with common interests find their community.

💡 Sciences

• lugnasad.eu - for French speaking science lovers (Friendica)

🎨 Humanities

• photographer.pro - for working professional photographers (Mastodon)
• oulipo.social - a lipogrammatic server (Mastodon)

🎓 Education

• tusk.schoollibraries.net - helping educators improve the School Libraries Resource Network (Mastodon)
• mastodon.oeru.org - for educators and learners involved in the OERu

🎵 Music

• koreadon.com - for K-POP music fans (Mastodon)
• feedbeat.me - dedicated to culture and events such as music, poetry, comedy, etc. (Mastodon)

🔭 Interests and hobbies

• rollenspiel.social - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers (Mastodon)
• rollenspiel.group - (German) roleplay, Pen & Paper, tabletop, TCG, for all gamers (Friendica)
• scramble.city - transformers, super robots, mecha and related subjects (Mastodon)
• mhz.social - for radio amateurs, DXers and anyone interested to geek out about radio (Mastodon)
• podcastindex.social - for stake holders of podcasting who are interested in improving the ecosystem (Mastodon)
• mastd.racing - dedicated to motosports (Mastodon)
• speedster.social - for auto enthusiasts (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)
• btc.gdn - bitcoin Fediverse instance (Cloudflared) (Pleroma)

🎏 Language specific

• polyglot.city - for multilingual and polyglots (Mastodon)
• mastodon.sk - for Slovak users (Mastodon)
• mastodon.eus - for Euskera/Basque speakers (Mastodon)
• lhub.social - for Polish speakers (Mastodon)
• bong.social - for Bengali worldwide (Mastodon)
• xarxa.cloud - for Catalan and Spanish speakers (Mastodon)
• mastodon.fedi.bzh - for Breton and Gallo speakers (Mastodon)
• tooxy.cz - for Czech speakers (Mastodon)
• esperanto.masto.host - for those interested in Esperanto (Mastodon)
• gomastodon.cz - for Czech users (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)
• soc.phreedom.club - for Russian users (Pleroma)

⛺ Regional

• muenchen.social - Munich, Germany (Mastodon)
• ruhr.social - Ruhr area, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.cologne - Cologne, Germany (Mastodon)
• nrw.social - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Mastodon)
• social.saarland - Saarland, Germany (Mastodon)
• toot.chemnitz.social - Chemnitz, Germany (Mastodon)
• machteburch.social - Magdeburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• brandenburg.social - Brandenburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• berlin.social - Berlin, Germany (Mastodon)
• kreuzberg.free-social.net - Kreuzberg, Berlin (Pleroma)
• osna.social - Osnabrück, Germany (Mastodon)
• fem.social - Ilmenau, Germany (Mastodon)
• friendica.a-zwenkau.de - Zwenkau, Germany (Friendica)
• graz.social - Graz, Austria (Mastodon)
• oslo.town - Oslo, Norway (Mastodon)
• norrebro.space - Denmark (Mastodon)
• mastodon.nl - Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.lu - Luxembourg (Mastodon)
• mastodon.scot - Scotland, or who identify as Scottish (Mastodon)
• glasgow.social - Glasgow, Scotland (Mastodon)
• toot.wales - Wales and the Welsh (Mastodon)
• triangletoot.party - Triangle region of North Carolina, USA (Mastodon)
• socialclub.nyc - New York, USA (Mastodon)
• sfba.social - San Francisco Bay Area, USA (Mastodon)
• sf.social - San Francisco Bay Area, USA (Mastodon)
• austin.community - Austin and central Texas, USA (Mastodon)
• mastodon.quebec - Quebec, Canada (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ml - Russia (Mastodon)
• ru.social - Russia (Mastodon)
• mstdn.es - Spain (Mastodon)
• barcelona.social - Barcelona (Pleroma)
• pleroma.pt - Portugal (Pleroma)
• mastodon.in.th - Thailand (Mastodon)
• social.net.ua - Ukraine (Pleroma)
• 0x3c.pl - Trójmiasto, Poland (for all sorts of creative and technical people) (Mastodon)
• aus.social - Australia (Mastodon)
• mastodon.green - green European Union (Mastodon)
• turkum.site - Turkey (Mastodon)
• leafposter.club - Canada (Pleroma)

🎬 Book / Game / Show theme

• cmdr.social - dedicated to Elite: Dangerous and space exploration (Mastodon)

🐧 For techies

• fsmi.social - free software movement of India (Mastodon)
• indieweb.social - for participants and supporters of the IndieWeb movement (Mastodon)
• noc.social - focused on technology, networking, Linux, BSD, privacy and security (Mastodon)
• techlover.eu - talk about new technologies like development, digital art or science (Mastodon)

💻 Programming

• ruby.social - for people interested in Ruby, Rails and related topics (Mastodon)
• pythondevs.social - for Python developers of all experience levels (Pleroma)
• haskell.social - a Haskell instance for programmers, user groups, etc (Cloudflared) (Pleroma)

🎮 Gamedev

• gameliberty.club - mainly gaming / nerd instance (Mastodon)
• pcgamer.social - by PC gamer, for PC gamers (Mastodon)

🔴 Political and social views

• hispagatos.space - for hackers, social anarchists, and anarchist hackers (Mastodon)
• activism.openworlds.info - for activists (Mastodon)
• campaign.openworlds.info - for campaigners and NGOs (Mastodon)
• leftist.network - for those with Leftist politics (Mastodon)
• rizomatica.org - Italian speaking community that values social emancipation and equality (Hubzilla)
• ontological.city - for debating on philosophy, society, politics, degrowth and other controversial ideas (Mastodon)
• newsocial.tech - for individuals who are interested in civil rights progress (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)

🐰 Ecology and animals

• toot.cat - instance for cats, the people who love them, and kindness in general (Mastodon)
• climatejustice.social - for activists of the global climate justice and social justice movement (Mastodon)

🌈 Safe spaces

• pipou.academy - French community with emphasis on kindness (Mastodon)

👽 Fandoms

• bungle.online - fandom instance, post media, fan art and fanfiction (Misskey)

🐾 Subcultures

• this.mouse.rocks - furry instance for all the mouse adjacent folks who rock (Mastodon)
• birds.garden - a quiet, peaceful place where any bird can find refuge (Mastodon)

🌏 Notable generalistic

// small-to-medium sized instances that will be happy to have new users

• venera.social - friendly humans are welcome (Friendica)
• meld.de - your data is yours, only you decide when, where and how you share it (Friendica)
• nerdculture.de (Mastodon)
• ieji.de - no logs, has Tor .onion address (Mastodon)
• gentoo.live - is running on Gentoo (Pleroma)
• mastodon.world - use however you like (Mastodon)
• h-y-p-e-r.space - public server located in the Netherlands (Friendica)
• misskey.de - hosted in Helsinki (Misskey)
• jako.social - an instance funded using web monetization (Cloudflared) (Mastodon)

😸 For people with a sense of self-irony

• sonogatto.it - a social network for cats, no registration of human beings accepted (Mastodon)
• ephemeral.glitch.social - toots are ephemeral and disappear after a while (Mastodon)

🐚 Run by tech-savvy organizations

• en.osm.town - for the OpenStreetMap Community (Mastodon)

🎉 Notable mention

// are open to particular audience, i.e., to students of university

• mastodon.mit.edu - for the MIT community (Mastodon)
• mastodon.acc.sunet.se - by Academic Computer Club at Umeå University, Sweden (Mastodon)
• metu.life - for METU university of Turkey (Mastodon)

🎉 Various (registration by application)

// these servers may be removed in future automated updates due to signups by application

• augsburg.social - Augsburg, Germany (Mastodon)
• wue.social - Würzburg (and the neighbourhood), Germany (Mastodon)
• bonn.social - Bonn, Germany (Mastodon)
• toot.koeln - Cologne, Germany (generalistic) (Mastodon)
• krefeld.life - Krefeld, Germany (Mastodon)
• dresden.network - Dresden, Germany (Mastodon)
• darmstadt.social - Darmstadt, Germany (Mastodon)
• fulda.social - Fulda, Germany (Mastodon)
• norden.social - Northern Germany (Mastodon)
• social.bau-ha.us - Weimar, Germany (Mastodon)
• voi.social - Austria (Mastodon)
• wien.rocks - Vienna, Austria (Mastodon)
• snabelen.no - Norway (Mastodon)
• mastodon.se - Sweden (Mastodon)
• tukkers.online - Twente region, Netherlands (Mastodon)
• mastodon.opencloud.lu - Luxembourg (private and public organisations) (Mastodon)
• mastodon.uy - Uruguay (Mastodon)
• chilemasto.casa - Chile (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ie - Ireland (Mastodon)
• mastodon.me.uk - UK tech community (Mastodon)
• rva.party - Richmond, USA (Mastodon)
• social.tulsa.ok.us - Tulsa, Northeast Oklahoma, USA (Mastodon)
• kcmo.social - Kansas City, USA (Mastodon)
• the.vermonters.club - Vermont, USA (Mastodon)
• mastodon.fedi.quebec - Quebec, Canada (Mastodon)
• mastodos.com - Kyoto, Japan (Mastodon)
• mastodon.madrid - Madrid, Spain (Mastodon)
• fedivers.net - Catalonia (Mastodon)
• masto.pt - Portugal (Mastodon)
• scicomm.xyz - for scientists and science enthusiasts (Mastodon)
• fediscience.org - for publishing scientists, from natural sciences to the humanities (Mastodon)
• writing.exchange - community for poets, writers, bloggers (Mastodon)
• imaginair.es - for writers, painters, cartoonists and people with imagination (Mastodon)
• mograph.social - for motion design community, VFX / 3D artists, animators, illustrators (Mastodon)
• socel.net - for animation professionals and freelancers (Mastodon)
• history.lol - for history and history jokes (Mastodon)
• iztasocial.site - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico (Mastodon)
• openbiblio.social - German libraries and information facilities (Mastodon)
• ausglam.space - Australian galleries, libraries, archives, museums and records people (Mastodon)
• metalhead.club - for metal friends (Mastodon)
• linernotes.club - for discussing music recordings (Mastodon)
• bostonmusic.online - digital space serving the Boston music scene (Mastodon)
• tabletop.social - for tabletop gamers
• mastodon.radio - for Amateur (Ham) Radio community (Mastodon)
• kith.kitchen - food and cooking (Mastodon)
• masto.beer - for those who love beer (Mastodon)
• tooot.im - main instance language is Hebrew (Mastodon)
• toot.si - Slovenian (multilingual) instance (Mastodon)
• mastodontti.fi - Finnish, public toots should be in Finnish (Mastodon)
• cthulhu.social - for fans of fantastic literature and horror stories, Lovecraft (German/English speaking) (Mastodon)
• floss.social - for people who support or build Free Libre Open Source Software (Mastodon)
• linuxrocks.online - dedicated to Linux and technologies (Mastodon)
• mathstodon.xyz - for Maths people (Mastodon)
• digipres.club - conversations about digital preservation (Mastodon)
• osrc.pw - for people interested in open-source software, free web (Mastodon)
• phpc.social - PHP community
• eupublic.social - for people interested in a united, post-national, truly democratic Europe (Mastodon)
• dads.cool - anyone with a kid can be a dad (Mastodon)
• cooler.mom - anyone with a kid can be a mom (Mastodon)
• tech.lgbt - for tech workers, academics, students, and others in tech who are LGBTQA+ allies (Mastodon)
• colorid.es- Spanish LGBTQIA+ / queer instance primarily for Portuguese speakers (Mastodon)
• notbird.site - left-wing instance of hackers, makers and gays (Mastodon)
• fandom.ink - for fans and fandoms of all types (Mastodon)
• aspiechattr.me - for aspies and other NDs where you can chat to other peeps with ASD, ADHD, and related conditions (Mastodon)
• meow.social - general furry/safe-space instance (Mastodon)
• tooting.ch - generic instance hosted by the FairSocialNet association (Mastodon)
• kindred.haus (Mastodon)
• kafuka.me - general server with highlight on art, tech, gaming and retro computing! (Mastodon)
• kernel.social - kernel.org after-party (Mastodon)
• weirder.earth - for thoughtful weirdos (Hometown-Mastodon)
• m.g3l.org - by G3L, libre software association (Mastodon)
• digitalcourage.social - by DigitalCourage (Mastodon)
• mastodon.nzoss.nz - by New Zealand Open Source Society (Mastodon)
• mastodon.roflcopter.fr - by Roflcopter, CHATONS member (Mastodon)
• libretooth.gr - by LibreOps, who contribute to (re-)decentralizing the net (Mastodon)
• photog.social - place for your photos (Mastodon)
• mastodon.cc - for art (Mastodon)
• theres.life - for Christians (Mastodon)
• mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu - for Berkeley students, faculty, and staff (Mastodon)
• mastodon.utwente.nl - for the University of Twente community (Mastodon)
• fikaverse.club - Swedish and other Scandinavian languages (Mastodon)
• scholar.social - for researchers, undergrads, journal editors, librarians, administrators (Mastodon)
• literatur.social - for German speaking authors and literary people (Mastodon)
• dobbs.town - open to members of The Church of the SubGenius (Mastodon)
• wpbuilds.social - for those who love Wordpress and open source (Mastodon)
• feuerwehr.social - for all firefighters in German-speaking countries (Mastodon)
• pleroma.tulln.social - for town and region Tulln, lower Austria (Pleroma)
• dragonscave.space - instance with a blind and visually impaired membership, welcome to everyone who is a nice person (Mastodon)

Disclaimer

Following instances skipped: number of users > 5.000, closed registration at the moment of checking, running old code, theme / description not understood due to language barrier or scarce description, long blocklists, experimental servers.

Note: new server additions welcome, however, this is a curated list for newcomers - for this reason second-level, human-friendly domain names will more likely be accepted than 3-level, long, unintelligible strings of letters.

Note: servers with closed registration may be placed only in "Notable mention" category, only if they represent well-known organizations or establishments.

Add your own themed instance via merge request or send a suggestion to @lightone@mastodon.xyz via Fediverse. If your server already has many users, it will be nice of you to let other servers grow, for a healthier decentralization.

🌟 Other research links

• Pirate Parties in Fediverse
• Mastodon server distribution research by @Leah
• Fediverse server distribution by @href